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The Richardson Center Supports Informal Learning and Skills-Building Opportunities in Rohingya Refugee Camps
Monday, January 4, 2021
Besides the ability to return to their homeland in Myanmar in safety and dignity, there are few aspirations that Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh want more than to be able to educate their children. Like so many persecuted minorities around the world, Rohingya see learning and skills-building opportunities as a critical component to a more hopefulRead the full article »

Center’s Steve Ross in Asia Times: The world is failing the Rohingya
Monday, August 24, 2020
The brutality that began in Myanmar’s Rakhine state on August 25, 2017, marked a crescendo in a decades-long, state-led campaign of physical and structural violence, discriminatory policies and practices, and dehumanizing hate speech targeting the Rohingya. In just a few weeks, the Tatmadaw, as Myanmar’s military is known, murdered thousands of Rohingya civilians, torched hundreds of villages,Read the full article »

Urban Farming: Supporting Rohingya Refugees’ Self-Sufficiency in Camps
Friday, March 6, 2020
Urban farming, including composting, food preservation, and waste management, has the potential to improve the lives of Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh camps. The Richardson Center for Global Engagement is helping Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar with an innovative program that uses creative partnerships between business owners, social entrepreneurs, UN agencies, and NGOs, to facilitateRead the full article »

Asia Times: Center’s Steve Ross marks two years since the Rohingya exodus from Myanmar
Monday, August 26, 2019
To mark two years since the Rohingya exodus from Myanmar, Center’s Steve Ross calls for a continued focus on repatriation as the ultimate, if not immediate, goal and for guaranteeing Rohingya a stake in discussions about repatriation and their futures. Read the full piece <<here>> (Photo Credit: David Ewald)

Richardson Center’s Steve Ross interview in Dhaka Tribune
Friday, May 17, 2019
Mazher Mir talks to Steve Ross, a senior adviser and program director at the Richardson Center, about the plight of the Rohingya and how it affects Bangladesh Governor Bill Richardson is a highly-regarded American diplomat with a long career of public service, including as a US congressman, US ambassador to the UN, secretary of energy,Read the full article »

Washington Post: Former U.N. ambassador Bill Richardson nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for work on North Korea
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
By Anne Gearan January 30 Former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson was nominated last month by members of Congress. His nomination, which has not been previously reported, is for decades of work on behalf of hostages and prisoners held in several nations. The Norwegian Nobel Committee was asked to consider case histories including the late OttoRead the full article »

Mickey Bergman on the plight of the Rohingya in Myanmar and Bangladesh
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Richardson Center’s VP, Mickey Bergman, interview with David Shuster of i24 News, on the one year mark of the Myanmar clearing operations against the Rohingya in Rakhine State

One Year Later, Rohingya Still Needs Help and Needs to Be Heard
THE HILL OP-ED, BY FORMER GOV. BILL RICHARDSON (D-N.M.), 08/27/18 02:30 PM EDT In the long history of violence and discrimination directed against the Rohingya — a Muslim minority group from Myanmar — Aug. 25 is an especially dark date. Over one year ago, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, a Rohingya militant group, launched coordinated attacks onRead the full article »

CNN News Clip – Bill Richardson: Myanmar’s Suu Kyi ‘Has Changed’
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
View video here Aung San Suu Kyi “did not want to listen to frank advice,” says veteran U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson, who resigned from an advisory board on the Rohingya crisis. Source: CNN

Gov.Richardson Meets with Secretary General Kofi Annan and the Kofi Annan Foundation Regarding Myanmar Crisis
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Governor Richardson and the Richardson Center met with Secretary General Kofi Annan and the Kofi Annan Foundation today in Geneva. They discussed the crisis in Rakhine State, Myanmar, and identified pathways towards its resolution.